test-drb February 2015

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by abuse＠cabal.org.uk

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 08:06:14AM -0600, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > Your membership in the mailing list cctalk has been disabled due to excessive > bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 18-Feb-2015. You will not > get any more messages from this list until you re-enable your membership. You > will receive 3 more reminders like this before your membership in the list is > deleted. These automatic unsubscriptions are getting tedious. I'm not bouncing cctalk mail, but I *am* bouncing all mail from cctech since I never subscribed and the list software has ignored all reasonable efforts to unsubscribe. Evidently there's a misconfiguration somewhere that is linking the two lists like Siamese twins. I did drop Jay a line offering to look at and fix the configuration, but that mail seems to have vanished into the void along with my cctech unsubscription attempts. So, is there any way to receve cctalk and not cctech?

9 years, 4 months

WANTED: "Tech Pickers" to have their own TV show

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

I received this email from Mary - I myself have no personality LOL, perhaps you do?Please apply within: From: Mary Abramson <Mary.abramson at nutopia.com> My name is Mary Abramsonand I?m a Casting Producer at Nutopia. Currently we?re looking for a couple of guys that areespecially passionate about vintage tech to host a new show. I?d love to speakwith you about this project if you?re interested. Let?s set up a call, and thenpossibly a Skype interview. If not, please feel free to pass my contact info onto anyone you think might fit.?I?ve attached our companybio below, but please don?t hesitate to ask me any further questions. Lookingforward to hearing from you!?Sincerely,Mary Mary Abramson NY Casting Producermary.abramson at nutopia.com Cell: (917) 969-1537?www.nutopia.com

9 years, 4 months

Incandescent lights [Re: It's time to restore the 11/45.]

by kspt.tor＠gmail.com

On 14 February 2015 at 16:41, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: > They consume about 18 watts and have claimed life expectancies > in the 30,000 to 50,000 hour range. But, is this the kind of life expectancy where they include the hours when it's also powered off? Because that's what I have seen for some early LED lights - 20,000 hours total lifetime if you used it only 2.5 hours a day.. the rest of the day was included in the life time claim. Real life expectancy was thus only a bit more than 2000 hours, less than three months, which turned out to be pretty accurate in practice.

9 years, 4 months

Craig Solomonson posts the video he made to sell his Apple I back in 1996

by christian_liendo＠yahoo.com

It's interesting because he reads the letter he got from Apple talking about their support for the Apple I vs Apple II http://youtu.be/pCtHNWq8tjQ

9 years, 4 months

Equipment Available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

In Sydney Australia. a PDP-11/03 (probably with an expansion chassis) and an RX01 drive, all in a lowboy "desk" cabinet. All front panel covers present. Cost details are not specific, but it appears to be "free to a good home". Owner will not ship, so local pickup only. If interested, please contact me off-list and I'll hook you up with the owner. Best, J

9 years, 4 months

EEPROM programmer for 68766

by roeapeterson＠gmail.com

I'm trying to upgrade my pdp11/23+. The new eeproms are 68766 24-pin 64kbit. Like an idiot, I assumed my minipro 6 ltl USB programmer could handle these, but I was wrong. Can anyone point me at a programmer that _can_ burn these? Thanks!

9 years, 4 months

Multi-node BBS'

by jplist2008＠kiwigeek.com

Gary's pulling up a BBS pushed me onto a wave of nostalgia so I've been digging through my old DOS archives of BBS software and the like that I picked up years ago and I came to a question. How did people set up multi-node BBS' back in the day? I know you could run something like Desqview and run multiple copies on a single system, and some BBS' (like TBBS) had built-in multitasking so it handled multiple modems. And, of course, you could get fancy and run a Novell network. Were there other ways of doing this? I also saw a random mention of multi-node Commodore BBS'. Given Commodores didn't network or multi-task, I'm curious if the author of the note was mistaken, or if such things existed -- and then how did they work? My thanks for helping with my flashback; - JP

9 years, 4 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by mhs.stein＠gmail.com

Indeed; given the choice I think I'd much rather modify an old file-handling report-printing business program written in COBOL than most other languages... I mean, what could be simpler and more self-documenting: http://www.google.com/doodles/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday m ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL > At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>What I read horrified me. How could anything be >>that mind-crushingly >>verbose? > > As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? > :-) > > - John > >

9 years, 4 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: > At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>What I read horrified me. How could anything be that mind-crushingly >>verbose? > > As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? :-) Life is more than [0-9A-Z.,:;/#$%!*<>()_-+] -ethan

9 years, 4 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >What I read horrified me. How could anything be that mind-crushingly >verbose? As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? :-) - John

9 years, 4 months

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